Rep. Tom Cross

Filed: 3/19/2012

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4867

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4867 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
5changing Sections 15-107 and 16-106 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/15-107)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 15-107)
7    Sec. 15-107. Employee.
8    (a) "Employee" means any member of the educational,
9administrative, secretarial, clerical, mechanical, labor or
10other staff of an employer whose employment is permanent and
11continuous or who is employed in a position in which services
12are expected to be rendered on a continuous basis for at least
134 months or one academic term, whichever is less, who (A)
14receives payment for personal services on a warrant issued
15pursuant to a payroll voucher certified by an employer and
16drawn by the State Comptroller upon the State Treasurer or by

 

 

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1an employer upon trust, federal or other funds, or (B) is on a
2leave of absence without pay. Employment which is irregular,
3intermittent or temporary shall not be considered continuous
4for purposes of this paragraph.
5    However, a person is not an "employee" if he or she:
6        (1) is a student enrolled in and regularly attending
7    classes in a college or university which is an employer,
8    and is employed on a temporary basis at less than full
9    time;
10        (2) is currently receiving a retirement annuity or a
11    disability retirement annuity under Section 15-153.2 from
12    this System;
13        (3) is on a military leave of absence;
14        (4) is eligible to participate in the Federal Civil
15    Service Retirement System and is currently making
16    contributions to that system based upon earnings paid by an
17    employer;
18        (5) is on leave of absence without pay for more than 60
19    days immediately following termination of disability
20    benefits under this Article;
21        (6) is hired after June 30, 1979 as a public service
22    employment program participant under the Federal
23    Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and receives
24    earnings in whole or in part from funds provided under that
25    Act; or
26        (7) is employed on or after July 1, 1991 to perform

 

 

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1    services that are excluded by subdivision (a)(7)(f) or
2    (a)(19) of Section 210 of the federal Social Security Act
3    from the definition of employment given in that Section (42
4    U.S.C. 410); or .
5        (8) becomes employed after the effective date of this
6    amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly by the Illinois
7    Association of School Administrators, the Illinois
8    Principals Association, Special Olympics Illinois, the
9    Illinois Association of School Business Officials, the
10    Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum
11    Development, the Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center,
12    or the Association of Illinois Middle Grade Schools, with
13    respect to that employment, but this does not exclude
14    participation in the System by a person so employed on that
15    effective date for the duration of that employment.
16    (b) Any employer may, by filing a written notice with the
17board, exclude from the definition of "employee" all persons
18employed pursuant to a federally funded contract entered into
19after July 1, 1982 with a federal military department in a
20program providing training in military courses to federal
21military personnel on a military site owned by the United
22States Government, if this exclusion is not prohibited by the
23federally funded contract or federal laws or rules governing
24the administration of the contract.
25    (c) Any person appointed by the Governor under the Civil
26Administrative Code of the State is an employee, if he or she

 

 

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1is a participant in this system on the effective date of the
2appointment.
3    (d) A participant on lay-off status under civil service
4rules is considered an employee for not more than 120 days from
5the date of the lay-off.
6    (e) A participant is considered an employee during (1) the
7first 60 days of disability leave, (2) the period, not to
8exceed one year, in which his or her eligibility for disability
9benefits is being considered by the board or reviewed by the
10courts, and (3) the period he or she receives disability
11benefits under the provisions of Section 15-152, workers'
12compensation or occupational disease benefits, or disability
13income under an insurance contract financed wholly or partially
14by the employer.
15    (f) Absences without pay, other than formal leaves of
16absence, of less than 30 calendar days, are not considered as
17an interruption of a person's status as an employee. If such
18absences during any period of 12 months exceed 30 work days,
19the employee status of the person is considered as interrupted
20as of the 31st work day.
21    (g) A staff member whose employment contract requires
22services during an academic term is to be considered an
23employee during the summer and other vacation periods, unless
24he or she declines an employment contract for the succeeding
25academic term or his or her employment status is otherwise
26terminated, and he or she receives no earnings during these

 

 

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1periods.
2    (h) An individual who was a participating employee employed
3in the fire department of the University of Illinois's
4Champaign-Urbana campus immediately prior to the elimination
5of that fire department and who immediately after the
6elimination of that fire department became employed by the fire
7department of the City of Urbana or the City of Champaign shall
8continue to be considered as an employee for purposes of this
9Article for so long as the individual remains employed as a
10firefighter by the City of Urbana or the City of Champaign. The
11individual shall cease to be considered an employee under this
12subsection (h) upon the first termination of the individual's
13employment as a firefighter by the City of Urbana or the City
14of Champaign.
15    (i) An individual who is employed on a full-time basis as
16an officer or employee of a statewide teacher organization that
17serves System participants or an officer of a national teacher
18organization that serves System participants may participate
19in the System and shall be deemed an employee, provided that
20(1) the individual has previously earned creditable service
21under this Article, (2) the individual files with the System an
22irrevocable election to become a participant before the
23effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General
24Assembly, (3) the individual does not receive credit for that
25employment under any other Article of this Code, and (4) the
26individual first became a full-time employee of the teacher

 

 

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1organization and becomes a participant before the effective
2date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. An
3employee under this subsection (i) is responsible for paying to
4the System both (A) employee contributions based on the actual
5compensation received for service with the teacher
6organization and (B) employer contributions equal to the normal
7costs (as defined in Section 15-155) resulting from that
8service; all or any part of these contributions may be paid on
9the employee's behalf or picked up for tax purposes (if
10authorized under federal law) by the teacher organization.
11    A person who is an employee as defined in this subsection
12(i) may establish service credit for similar employment prior
13to becoming an employee under this subsection by paying to the
14System for that employment the contributions specified in this
15subsection, plus interest at the effective rate from the date
16of service to the date of payment. However, credit shall not be
17granted under this subsection for any such prior employment for
18which the applicant received credit under any other provision
19of this Code, or during which the applicant was on a leave of
20absence under Section 15-113.2.
21    (j) A person employed by the State Board of Higher
22Education in a position with the Illinois Century Network as of
23June 30, 2004 shall be considered to be an employee for so long
24as he or she remains continuously employed after that date by
25the Department of Central Management Services in a position
26with the Illinois Century Network, the Bureau of Communication

 

 

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1and Computer Services, or, if applicable, any successor bureau
2and meets the requirements of subsection (a).
3(Source: P.A. 97-651, eff. 1-5-12.)
 
4    (40 ILCS 5/16-106)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 16-106)
5    Sec. 16-106. Teacher. "Teacher": The following
6individuals, provided that, for employment prior to July 1,
71990, they are employed on a full-time basis, or if not
8full-time, on a permanent and continuous basis in a position in
9which services are expected to be rendered for at least one
10school term:
11        (1) Any educational, administrative, professional or
12    other staff employed in the public common schools included
13    within this system in a position requiring certification
14    under the law governing the certification of teachers;
15        (2) Any educational, administrative, professional or
16    other staff employed in any facility of the Department of
17    Children and Family Services or the Department of Human
18    Services, in a position requiring certification under the
19    law governing the certification of teachers, and any person
20    who (i) works in such a position for the Department of
21    Corrections, (ii) was a member of this System on May 31,
22    1987, and (iii) did not elect to become a member of the
23    State Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section
24    14-108.2 of this Code; except that "teacher" does not
25    include any person who (A) becomes a security employee of

 

 

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1    the Department of Human Services, as defined in Section
2    14-110, after June 28, 2001 (the effective date of Public
3    Act 92-14), or (B) becomes a member of the State Employees'
4    Retirement System pursuant to Section 14-108.2c of this
5    Code;
6        (3) Any regional superintendent of schools, assistant
7    regional superintendent of schools, State Superintendent
8    of Education; any person employed by the State Board of
9    Education as an executive; any executive of the boards
10    engaged in the service of public common school education in
11    school districts covered under this system of which the
12    State Superintendent of Education is an ex-officio member;
13        (4) Any person participating in the System on the
14    effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General
15    Assembly as an employee of a school board association
16    operating in compliance with Article 23 of the School Code
17    who is certificated under the law governing the
18    certification of teachers, for the duration of that
19    employment, but not a person who becomes so employed after
20    that date;
21        (5) Any person employed by the retirement system who:
22            (i) was an employee of and a participant in the
23        system on August 17, 2001 (the effective date of Public
24        Act 92-416), or
25            (ii) becomes an employee of the system on or after
26        August 17, 2001;

 

 

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1        (6) Any educational, administrative, professional or
2    other staff employed by and under the supervision and
3    control of a regional superintendent of schools, provided
4    such employment position requires the person to be
5    certificated under the law governing the certification of
6    teachers and is in an educational program serving 2 or more
7    districts in accordance with a joint agreement authorized
8    by the School Code or by federal legislation;
9        (7) Any educational, administrative, professional or
10    other staff employed in an educational program serving 2 or
11    more school districts in accordance with a joint agreement
12    authorized by the School Code or by federal legislation and
13    in a position requiring certification under the laws
14    governing the certification of teachers;
15        (8) Any officer or employee of a statewide teacher
16    organization or officer of a national teacher organization
17    who is certified under the law governing certification of
18    teachers, provided: (i) the individual had previously
19    established creditable service under this Article, (ii)
20    the individual files with the system an irrevocable
21    election to become a member before the effective date of
22    this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, (iii) the
23    individual does not receive credit for such service under
24    any other Article of this Code, and (iv) the individual
25    first became an officer or employee of the teacher
26    organization and becomes a member before the effective date

 

 

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1    of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly;
2        (9) Any educational, administrative, professional, or
3    other staff employed in a charter school operating in
4    compliance with the Charter Schools Law who is certificated
5    under the law governing the certification of teachers.
6        (10) Any person employed, on the effective date of this
7    amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, by the
8    Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education in a
9    birth-through-age-three pilot program receiving funds
10    under Section 2-389 of the School Code who is required by
11    the Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education to hold a
12    teaching certificate, provided that the Macon-Piatt
13    Regional Office of Education makes an election, within 6
14    months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
15    the 94th General Assembly, to have the person participate
16    in the system. Any service established prior to the
17    effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
18    Assembly for service as an employee of the Macon-Piatt
19    Regional Office of Education in a birth-through-age-three
20    pilot program receiving funds under Section 2-389 of the
21    School Code shall be considered service as a teacher if
22    employee and employer contributions have been received by
23    the system and the system has not refunded those
24    contributions.
25    An annuitant receiving a retirement annuity under this
26Article or under Article 17 of this Code who is employed by a

 

 

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1board of education or other employer as permitted under Section
216-118 or 16-150.1 is not a "teacher" for purposes of this
3Article. A person who has received a single-sum retirement
4benefit under Section 16-136.4 of this Article is not a
5"teacher" for purposes of this Article.
6(Source: P.A. 97-651, eff. 1-5-12.)
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8becoming law.".